Why Read the Classics?Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 16 dic 2014 - 288 páginas "All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics." --from Why Read the Classics? Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in essays of warmth, humor, and striking insight. He ranges from Homer to Jorge Luis Borges, from the Persian folklorist Nezami to Charles Dickens. Whether tracing the links between Ovid's Metamorphoses and Alain Robbe-Grillet's objectivity, discovering the origins of science fiction in the writings of Cyrano de Bergerac, or convincing us that the Italian novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda's works are like artichokes, Calvino offers a new perspective on beloved favorites and introduces us to hidden gems. "This book serves as a welcome reminder that the great works are great because they can mean so much to readers, and Calvino is a most knowledgeable guide to all the best destinations." --San Francisco Chronicle |
Índice
Why Read the Classics? | 3 |
The Odysseys Within The Odyssey | 11 |
Xenophons Anabasis | 19 |
Ovid and Universal Contiguity | 25 |
The Sky Man the Elephant | 37 |
Nezamis Seven Princesses | 47 |
Tirant lo Blanc | 53 |
The Structure of the Orlando Furioso | 59 |
Gustave Flaubert Trois Contes | 151 |
Leo Tolstoy Two Hussars | 155 |
Mark Twain The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | 159 |
Henry James Daisy Miller | 165 |
Robert Louis Stevenson The Pavilion on the Links | 169 |
Conrads Captains | 173 |
Pasternak and the Revolution | 179 |
The World is an Artichoke | 197 |
Brief Anthology of Octaves from Ariosto | 69 |
Gerolamo Cardano | 77 |
The Book of Nature in Galileo | 83 |
Cyrano on the Moon | 91 |
Robinson Crusoe Journal of Mercantile Virtues | 97 |
Candide or Concerning Narrative Rapidity | 103 |
Denis Diderot Jacques le Fataliste | 107 |
Giammaria Ortes | 113 |
Knowledge as Dustcloud in Stendhal | 119 |
Guide for New Readers of Stendhals Charterhouse | 131 |
The City as Novel in Balzac | 139 |
Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend | 145 |
Carlo Emilio Gadda the Pasticciaccio | 201 |
Eugenio Montale Forse un mattino andando | 209 |
Montales Cliff | 219 |
Hemingway and Ourselves | 223 |
Francis Ponge | 231 |
Jorge Luis Borges | 237 |
The Philosophy of Raymond Queneau | 245 |
Pavese and Human Sacrifice | 261 |
Back Matter | 265 |
Back Cover | 279 |
Spine | 280 |
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